Very often you come across a site which has embedded videos and doesn't provide a direct link for downloading them. With this guide I will show you how to download video files from the most famous websites using Firefox browser. So, let's get started!
First of all you must have Firefox installed in your computer. We will use some of Firefox's addons to simplify our job. If you don't already have firefox isntalled you can download Firefox from here.
Now that you have Firefox you must install the needed addon. Depending on which sites you want to download videos from choose from the following addons the one or ones you believe best suits you.
**Note: In order to view all the downloaded videos you need an flv player. You can download one freeware from here.
**Note: If you don't want to keep the videos as flv files and you want to convert them to avi or any other format you can find below some programms to convert them.
dowint.NET
Supported WebSites:
Youtube, Google Video, GoEar and others..
Youtube, Google Video, GoEar and others..
Installation:
Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3355 and click on the 'Install Now' button. When installation completes press 'Restart Firefox'.
How to use it:
After you restart firefox visit a youtube video. An icon will appear at the bottom right of your screen.
Wait for the video to complete load. Then click on that icon and save the get_video file to your disk. When the download completes rename the file as get_video.flv.
VideoDownloader
Supported WebSites:
Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos... and any other webpage with embedded objects.
Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos... and any other webpage with embedded objects.
Installation:
Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390 and click on the 'Install Now' button. When installation completes press 'Restart Firefox'.
How to use it:
After you restart firefox a new icon will appear at the bottom right of Firefox. Go to a website with an embeded video you want to save and click on that icon. A popup window will appear like the following one.
Click on the "Download Link" button and "Save to Disk" the file named get_video. When the download is complete rename the file as get_video.flv.
The only problem with this addon is that many times you get the following message "The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.". Well, as it says click the popup window and try again in a few seconds.
Media Pirate - The video downloader
Supported websites:
blip.tv break.com dailymotion.com ifilm.com media.putfile.com metacafe.com myvideo.de video.google.com vids.myspace.com vidilife.com, youtube.com zippyvideos.com
Installation:
Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4318 and click on the 'Install Now' button. When installation completes press 'Restart Firefox'.
How to use it:
After you restart firefox a new icon will appear next to google search. When you visit a website with an embeded this icon will become colored.
Click on that icon and a new window will open. Click on the "Download it now" link as shown in the picture below. Next "Save to Disk" the file named get_video. When the download is complete rename the file as get_video.flv.
Ook? Video Ook!
Supported WebSites:YouTube, Google Video, Pornotube, Metacafe and many more
Installation:
Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2584 and click on the 'Install Now' button. When installation completes press 'Restart Firefox'.
How to use it:
After you restart firefox a new icon will appear at the bottom right of Firefox. Go to a website with an embeded video you want to save and click on that icon. The download will start immediatelly and there is no need to rename the file. It's downloaded as flv.
Fast Video Download
Supported WebSites:
Angry Alien, Anime Episodes, Anime Forever, Bad Jojo, Blip.TV, Bo-Funk, Bolt, Break.com, Bubblare.dk, CollegeHumor.com, Current.TV, Daily Motion, Danerd.com, eVideo Share, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Libero.IT Video, HI5 (VideoEgg), My Space, MetaCafe, News.NTV.ru, PornoTube, Put File, Streetfire, Totally Crap, You Tube, V-Social and Vidiac
Installation:
Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3590 and click on the 'Install Now' button. When installation completes press 'Restart Firefox'.
How to use it:
After you restart firefox a new icon will appear at the bottom right of
Firefox. Go to a website with an embeded video you want to save and
click on that icon. The "Save as" window will appear. Just click save.
There is no need to rename the file. It's downloaded as flv.
Video Download
Supported WebSites:Youtube, Google Video, Pornotube, Grinvi... and meny other sites
Installation:
Go to this site https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3242 and click on the 'Install Now' button. When installation completes press 'Restart Firefox'.
How to use it:
After you restart firefox go to a website with an embeded video you want to save and right click somewhere on that page. Select "Download Video" as shown in the picture below. A window will pop up. Here left click on Download and you will get the .flv video file.
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